i feel your pain.

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I've recently started dabbling a bit with mixing breaks, though I still have very, very few tracks featuring breaks. Generally speaking I don't find it all that difficult, and I think it's pretty normal for you to be able to hear the transition more than you normally would with regular beats.

This post might not be of much help to you, aside from saying that yes, it is indeed possible. I'm not sure how long you've been spinning for, but keep at it, and I'm sure it'll come together for you.

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I suggest you buy some tracks that have the standard 4/4 beat but then have a part with a breakbeat (ex. 'push - strange world)...then you can beatmatch the incoming track when there's the regular beat but then it will also match up with the breakbeat part. This is a good way to practice at least.

It's also important to use the highhat when mixing breaks with trance. If you match the highhats then the beats should match as well.

yes, its very much possible, i think mactching the swnares or claps is 100% easier than the kicks anyways... the kicks are easy to get close, but to get perfect the claps and snares are easier, kinda like mixing DnB. but, when youre matching, as long as you know the relative bpm, dont rely on soly 'matching this with that'. just hear the music, and it either sounds nice, and in sync, or like crap and out of sync. you should be able to take anything, whether it has a 4/4 kick or a bbeat and match it. just the sole bassline should be enough. but, that comes with practice, but i would say to try not to rely on just 'matching this with that' and try to hear them flowing together... my 2cents..

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definitey doable and it adds some nice variety to a set. i love hearing some breaks come in over straight beat on the dancefloor. it can really get the enrgy going.

i find breaks are sometimes easier to mix than straight beats. it's harder to tell when breaks aren't quite beatmatched right so you can get away with some errors. if you're totally off though, you're totally off.

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mmmm.. delicious...

I love to hear breaks get thrown into a trance set... I haven't done much of it myself... mostly cuz of the lack of break vinyls I have... But my mate (Prodigy Child) has been going all out lately with messing around with it.. I am sure he will have something to add to this thread soon...

And yea it is possible and it defineately adds something to a transistion when done properly IMO...

as mentioned...learn to match the hihats so you can mix the breaks into and out of trance...

Looks like everyone beat me to the hi-hats/snare suggestion. It isn't so hard for me to do, but I spin a lot of drum 'n bass, so it's kinda natural to me now.

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Originally posted by Nou My World Issues teacher told me to match the snare and percussion like tranceDJ said, but also need to still listen to the kick to know your in phrase. It gets easy after a while though.

your world issues teacher > my world issues teacher

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I mix breaks and house a lot. It's not so hard. Trance is a bit fast for most breaks, but you line up the snare with the claps and use the hi-hats to get it more accurate. I think that was already said, but there's a bit of conformation.

Breaks + House = The Win

been experimenting with a bit of offbeat techno lately (comes down to the same as mixing breaks with trance I suppose), and I think it's easier to do in some way, since smaller errors are less obvious. I can't really think of a reason why, but I've experienced it is.

And I love the variety it brings to a set..

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d&b session 20090519
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